On-premises computing often come with a host of issues and challenges that most business people would rather not have to deal with. You don’t own and operate your own power plant, so why do you own and operate a data centre?

Leave it to the experts.

Below are 5 reasons you’ll sleep better after making the switch to the Force.com platform.

1. Physical Security: Salesforce’s data centres are humidity and temperature controlled with redundant cooling systems. The buildings have 24-hour manned security, including foot patrols and perimeter inspections, biometric scanning for access, video surveillance throughout facility and perimeter, and all computing equipment is stored in access-controlled steel cages. How does your physical security compare against that?
2. Backups: Data is backed up to tape at each data centre, on a rotating schedule of incremental and full backups. The backups are cloned over secure links to a secure tape archive. Tapes are not transported offsite and are securely destroyed when retired. In addition, you can schedule a full or custom export of the data in your system so you have a local copy.
3. Availability: At trust.salesforce.com, Salesforce shows the live and historical status of each server. Up-to-the minute information on system performance provides unprecedented transparency.
4. Disaster Recovery: Salesforce performs real-time replication to disk at each data centre, and near real-time data replication between the production data centre and the disaster recovery centre. In addition, data is transmitted across encrypted links and disaster recovery tests verify projected recovery times and the integrity of your data. How does your existing disaster recovery compare?
5. Upgrades: With Salesforce.com, you receive updates three times a year. For free. Automatically. Welcome to the end of costly software maintenance fees.

Cloud computing removes the need to install any software, buy servers, upgrade servers, back-up data, etc. The result is massive cost savings due to reduced staffing, maintenance and power consumption.

Oh, and you’ll sleep better.

Contact us today to learn more how the Force.com can help your business.